Stedman's Medical Dictionary
approximal surface of tooth
the surface of a tooth that faces an adjacent tooth in the dental arch; the contact surface that is closest to the anterior midline of the dental arch is the mesial surface of a tooth; that farthest is the distal surface.Synonym(s): facies approximalis dentis TA, interproximal surface of tooth, contact surface of tooth, facies contactus dentis
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